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Eirik Romstad:
After Mensys has been taken over by XEU, and a more time consuming test phase of eCS 2.2 than anticipated, I suppose several eCS users wonder when will a consumer-ready release 2.2 be available?  Moreover, in a longer term perspective, what are the realistic picture of a real updated eCS 3.x?

Dave Yeo:
It looks like eCS is dead and others are taking up the torch, see Lewis's anouncement

Lewis Rosenthal:
 ;)

Mick Head:

--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on May 21, 2014, 05:27:27 pm ---It looks like eCS is dead and others are taking up the torch, see Lewis's anouncement

--- End quote ---

Is it really dead? Guess I've been holding out hope and trying to stay positive, but things aren't look good, are they.

On a brighter note, thank you Lewis for this wonderful announcement!!

Martin Iturbide:
Hi Eirik.

To be honest it is hard to see the future of eCS.

I always considered that eCS was lacking something, there was never a "long term strategy", there was never thoughts about what are we going to do with the close source components of OS/2 that are getting old.  Mensys strategy was always "patch OS/2 to run on modern hardware". That is not long term, and they had never also dreamed about what is coming next.

I can agreed that behind eCS was passion and love for the platform, and I praise the positive things that Mensys did. The open source projects they sponsor, their work patching the platform to run on modern hardware, ACPI, AHCI, USB drivers sponsoring, patching XWorkplace sponsoring, Qt, OpenJDK, Odin sponsoring, etc. But I never shared their long term strategy to maintain OS/2 as a legacy platform that is only good as corporate customers keep paying to maintain the legacy on modern hardware.

I'm not against selling eCS licenses, but just having that model only thinking in short-term is not good thing.

Yes, we require drivers, but at the same time we need to think about what is next and how to remain with the platform in the future.

Whatever comes next after Mensys: They may still need to sell licenses to have funds, but they need to dream harder on the future.

Regards

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